Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses #22

David Lapham's Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses continues its noir-drenched run with issue #22, subtitled "Killers, Thieves, Liars, and Nuts" — a title that sets the tone perfectly. The cover, rendered entirely by Lapham, is a study in louche menace: a mustachioed man with glasses reclines shirtless, cigarette dangling from his lips, while a vodka bottle, a martini glass, a rope, and a can of paint thinner crowd the foreground in a quietly unsettling still life. It's the kind of image that makes you genuinely curious what's simmering beneath that easy, smirking calm.